A few weeks ago my friend Julie asked me a few questions and hinted that she had something for me. I was curious but overworked enough not to ask too many questions about it.

A few days later she sent me a gorgeous E-Book based on my recipes called, The Adventurous Kitchen. She told me how to set it up and how to make it so that you can download it for free.

It is 43 pages ofsome of my favorite  recipes and suggestions for spices and condiments to keep on hand. Included are:

• Cheddar Bacon Smashed Potatoes
• Collard Green Jambalaya from my friend Edye
• Spicy Coconut Risotto with Sausage
• Cheesecakes. A bunch of them
• And everyone’s favorite…the Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Cake.

And she even put images in there….so….Click on the link! The download is free….

The Adventurous Kitchen

I will be adding the link to the sidebar as well.

This week has gone by fast, as so many of them seem to. I have been beyond busy, scrambling to try to get blogs set up as well as trying to keep the other assignments moving. It is a juggling game, for sure.

Spring has hit for sure this week. We even had a couple of days where it got into the 70s. The flowering quince and the Bradford pear trees are in bloom… and Kyrie brought me home a few daffodils from the pasture.I can’t wait until warmer weather. Yeah, I am going to complain about the heat but … well…. it’s o.k. Three words: Homemade Ice Cream. In the meantime I am enjoying spring. If it hasn’t hit you yet, it’s coming, I promise!

Are you ready for some blogsurfing? I am.

This week is St. Patrick’s Day. I can’t say that all of the cool recipes I found are Irish, but I can say that any one of them would be awesome ANY day of the week.

• Guinness Onion Soup with Bleu Cheese Croutons
• Peanut Butter Passion Bars
• Orange Drenched Spongecake Dessert
• Choconana Muffins with PB Filling
• Brown Butter Sour Cream Cookies
• How to Make Clotted Cream
  
• Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Glaze
• Mint Buttercream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes with Whipped Chocolate Ganache
• Breakfast Irish Soda Bread with Dried Cherries and Golden Raisins
• Custard Filled Cream Puffs

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Copying this over from Baking Delights…The Best 50 Cookies on the Internet was my biggest post ever and made the first page of Digg in 24 hours. Who knew that y’all liked cookies so darn much? Here it is, the original. I am checking all the links and polishing it up some but The 50 Best Cookies on the Internet is a classic and continues to be.

Hey if you like this, please consider adding the new address to Digg or stumble…thanks.

Gotta admit…I know my cookie dough.

1. Molasses Crinkles

2 Double Chocolate Toffee Cookies

3. Orange dark chocolate chip cookies

4. Maple pecan sticky bars

5 Ranger cookies

6. Windmill cookies

7. Rolled baklava

8. Black forest cookies

9. Chai tea cookies

10. Chocolate marshmallow cookies

11. Blondies

12. Samoas

13. Linzer sables

14. Potato chip cookies drizzled with chocolate

15. Lemon bars with raspberry coulis

16. Espresso brownies with crystalized ginger

17. Peanut butter and fudge brownies with salted peanuts

18. White chocolate, cranberry, macadamia cookies

19 Malted milk ball cookies

20. Homemade graham crackers

21. Cherry pinwheel cookies

22. Pumpkin pie biscotti

23. Lemon pistachio cookies scroll down the page for these

24. Earl grey tea shortbread

25. Caramel walnut dream bars

26. Mud puddle chocolate cookies

27. Lemon basil butter cookies

28. Latte cheesecake bars

29. Meyer Lemon and Black Pepper cookies

30. Triple chocolate boomchunkas

31. Ravioli dolci

32. Green tea cheesecake white chocolate brownie can you say..oh my gosh?

33. Lavender shortbread

34. White chocolate peppermint pistachio bars

35. Chocolate pixie cookies

36. Homemade animal crackers

37. Praline shortbread bars

38. Mrs Siggs Peanut Butter Cookies

39. Peanut butter cup cookies

40. Maple snickerdoodles

41 Brown eyed susans

42. Cranberry decadent cookies

43. Lemon crumb bars

44. Checkerboard cookies

45  Hazlenut ganache cups

46. Heath bar cookies

47. Chocolate chip cookies

48. Petit lemon curd cookies

49. Oatmeal cookies with nectarine ice cream

50. Cookie Dough Brownies

and there you have it. Of course the list could be 100 or 300 or even 1000 long but ya gotta stop somewhere!

Well…. I hope you guys are prepared to surf with me on these new waves. Everything that was at Baking Delights is going to continue over here. After all, it was me, right?

Since I am in the putting it together stages any comments or suggestions or ideas about the site are welcome. Either email me at maryeaudetATgmailDOTcom or leave a comment here. I appreciate you guys so much.

So how could I forget Saturday Surfing? I can’t. I love doing it.

How has your week been? You know some of mine. It has been insane around here, and doesn’t look like it is settling down any time soon. Spring is here! It is 68 degrees and I can’t wait for summer! O.k. here’s what I’ve found this week: (more…)

Well, not like you would think.

About a year or so ago there were hints that b5media was going through major changes. I figured it would be best to start a new blog, just in case but I wasn’t totally comfortable with the idea of letting everyone know it was me. After all I didn’t want to hurry anything. Well, the problem was that it was almost impossible for me to keep up with all the blogs and I let this one slide since it wasn’t making me money and I was in the building stage.

Consider it something like being a developer and running out of funds…

So I kept the site but put it on hold for the time when I would need it.

I need it!

I would like Restless Chipotle to enter the foodie world with a giant BANG! and leave Baking Delights in the dust. I have complete freedom here and I can do whatever I want.

When I took Baking Delights it was getting 300 hits a day. In December 2009 it was at about 3000 hits a day. I want to do that with this blog but I don’t want to and can’t afford to take 3 years at it. So…please do the following:

If you have Baking Delights on your RSS feed or on your blog roll change it to Restless Chipotle please. If you can let your readers know I have moved that would help, too. And over the next few days I will be republishing old posts here so you may want to wait on adding Restless Chipotle to your reader because it could become really clogged up.

Leave comments and let me know…. do you like the way the blog looks?  Is it hard to maneuver? Bear with my construction…Other than that nothing has changed. I will still be doing saturday surfing, and giveaways, and other things that are just too cool for words. Oh, and I couldn’t have a blogroll on Baking Delights but I CAN have one here… so comment if I am on your blogroll so I can add you.

As always you can find me on twitter at MaryeAudet and Facebook as…. MaryeAudet.

Thanks for being supportive!

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